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>From: Steve Wingate
>Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.mindcontrol
>Subject: The Secret War Against Medford, Oregon (fwd)
>Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 15:18:35 -0700
Perceptions, July/August 1995
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>From "The Secret War Against Medford, Oregon", by Mark Metcalf.
Recently, while reading a back issue of Nexus magazine, I came across a
news clip titled "The Mysterious Taos Hum." The story said that
Representative Bill Richardson (D-NM) has asked the House Select Committee
to investigate a noise that causes dizziness, shortness of breath,
headaches, anxiety and sleeplessness, and is thought by some to emanate
from a secret defense-related project plaguing various cities in New
Mexico.
I realized that I might know something about that sound, something that I
had been playing it safe with for fourteen years.
During the years 1980-83, I was living with the daughter of the new-
deceased Dr. David Fraser, former head of the Department of Toxicology at
the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. One Day she told me of a
frightening encounter involving her father and the American military. When
Dr. Fraser came to stay with us while on vacation in 1981, I asked him to
tell me the story.
Suicide capital overnight
He said that in the early 1970s, the small city of Medford, Oregon, became
the suicide capital of the United States overnight. (The exact dates can
be found by checking national health statistics.) After Dr. Fraser was
notified of this dramatic anomaly, he organized and sent a team of
researchers to look for the cause. The team checked the water, the air,
the soil and a variety of additional possibilities, but could find no reason
for the massive increase in suicides. Then the researchers discovered that
*ultra low frequencies* (ULF) were being beamed into Medford, Oregon, from
a nearby military base. When they went to the base and met with its
commanding officer, he said that although he knew about ULF, his base was
not responsible, the Russians were! However, the ULF waves stopped the
very next day.
The researchers determined that the military base was not the only source;
the ULF was also coming into the homes of the populace through their
television antennas, which created some sort of standing-wave resonance
within the structure of the home itself. People who were often at home in
the houses with TV antennas became severely depressed even if they did not
watch TV.
Since the ULF wave had stopped, the researchers returned to the University
to write their report and to confer with Dr. Fraser. Several men
displaying CIA credentials arrived on campus and said that the ULF waves
beamed into Medford were a "national security" matter. They explicitly
threatened to kill each of the researchers, including Dr. David Fraser
himself, should anyone speak further about it. As far as I know, no one
did.
It seems clear that the military-industrial complex secretly declared war
on the American people quite some time ago and is waging a long-term
psychological warfare operation, complete with fully operational, mass
mind-control technology.
In fact, our whole society seems to be what Walter Bowart* refers to as a
"psycho-civilization" ruled by a "cryptocracy."
How we respond makes a difference
What makes this evil that pervades our nation so effective is the
inappropriateness of our response. We behave much like Dr. B.F. Skinner's
chicken when placed between two salivating wolves. We just go on pecking.
But who do we call when the bad guys have badges and judges and ray guns--
when blueprints of new federal prisons have cells labeled "labs"?
How can we learn to develop responses that are appropriate to the dire
position we have acquiesced to? We must look for new models of behavior to
consider and act upon. We must deeply consider the achievements of the
founding fathers, which in many ways were without precedent. If we do not
find the courage to change our behavior we may soon come to the end of
human history on this planet.
As Abraham Lincoln said:
"The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and
conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic
than monarchy. More insolent than autocracy. More selfish
than bureaucracy. I see in the near future, a crisis approaching
that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my
country. Corporations have been enthroned. An era of
corruption will follow and the money power of the country will
endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of
the people, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and
the republic is destroyed."
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* Walter Bowart, Operation Mind Control, Dell Publishing, 1978, out of
print, Tucson. Jim Martin at (707)964-8326. Now available from Flatland,
P.O.Box 2420, Fort Bragg, CA 95437
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* Steve Wingate / CITIZEN'S INTELLIGENCE ACCESS BBS / 415.927.2435 / MindNet
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COSMIC AWARENESS ON THE TAOS HUM
From "Revelations of Awareness" Issue 93-14
(Excerpt from a CAC General Reading, August 12, 1993)
QUESTION:
On another subject: I'm sure we asked about this and it got
printed, probably within the context of another reading on
aliens, but evidently the membership either missed it or
want more details, for they're sending questions. I have a
packet here of about 12 questions on this same subject. It
concerns a hum around Tao, New Mexico which seems to be
spreading. Perhaps Awareness has some more information. I'll
read this article, which is typical:
Taos, N.M.-- When the wind is still and the nearby
meadowlark silent, Steven Welters' back yard falls quiet.
Too quiet. So quiet that he hears The Hum. "It sounds like a
great, big American car engine that's on idle," says
Walters. Looking out at the majestic Sangre de Cristo
Mountains on the eastern horizon, he confides, 'When I first
heard it, I thought I was going crazy." The same thing
happened to many others. In Taos, in Santa Fe, in
Albuquerque and In spots fall beyond -- even in Florida --
hundreds of people lately have said they are hearing a
similarly mysterious low-level frequency or hum. The audible
vibration, they say, is as annoying as a mosquito circling
your ear. Only this bug won't die. And the noise won't stop
until you turn on the TV, or turn up the stereo, or scream
and shout, to do anything to drown it out. The enigma has
gained wide-spread attention -- and a slow but growing
acceptance -- after a Taos couple spoke out a year ago about
a humming sound that was driving them nuts. At first, many
people dismissed Bob and Catanya Salzman as nuts themselves.
But those impressions faded when others spoke up. After they
went public, several hundred people in northern New Mexico
also said they were suffering from the constant noise,
frequently described as a diesel engine idling In the
distance, or a low throbbing, or a sputtering generator.
Soon, the story spread across the country, and more than 50
people from Washington state to Vermont, contacted
researchers with the same problem. Another 75 people
contacted the Saltzmans. And soon it became known that this
was not a new phenomenon, that more than 2,000 people in the
London and Southampton areas of Great Britain have reported
hearing sounds dating back to the 1940s. The English have an
organization (The Low Frequency Noise Sufferers Association,
a comprehensive news letter and even a name for themselves
"The Hummers"). A New Mexico scientist refers to the
Americans as "The Hearers." This story and others go on and
on. Scientists using extensive tests have determined the
sound is about 33 to 80 hertz. Steven Walters, a musician
hears the sound and now he is afraid to meditate because the
sound returns. Now every article on this has a little
different frame of reference, and this hum seems to be
spreading all over the country." Could Awareness give a more
in depth discussion on this?
COSMIC AWARENESS:
This Awareness indicates that essentially the humming as
that which relates to two different potential sources. In
some cases it is one, in some cases it is the other.
This Awareness indicates there are those underground tunnels
that have been worked on since the early 1940's in the
United States. There are underground tunnels that are being
connected from one place to another; these being created and
built on behalf of, for and by the aliens, in connection
with their contracts with the U.S. government. This has been
discussed previously.
Those machines that are used which create large circular
tunnels underground as they grind through rock, through
dirt, inching their way, like a giant worm-like motor
creature, create a great humming sound. It would not be a
humming sound if you were up close; it would be a grinding
sound, but these are one source of the sound.
This Awareness indicates there is also a lesser used
phenomenon which has to do with experiments of a military
nature, using infrasound, a very low frequency sound in
certain types of testing. The testing having to do with the
effects of the devices and also sometimes being used for
probing the earth's crust, with these infrasound waves.
This Awareness indicates that the sounds in London generally
have to do with the underground drilling or digging of
caverns and most of the sounds in New Mexico and over to
Florida, where these underground tunnels have been and are
being built to bring two types of alien transportation
beneath the earth of this nation.
This Awareness indicates you have been given certain maps of
the underground tunnels. These of course do not include the
newer ones that have been created since. This Awareness
indicates that essentially, these are the main sources of
the sounds. The infrasound waves that are occasionally used
in military testing can also produce a similar type of
vibration which entities sometimes hear.
These also can be associated with earthquakes in some
instances. This Awareness indicates that basically, these
are not natural phenomena; they are artificial. In some
cases the machines are human-operated such as the military
infrawave machines and some of the underground boring
equipment that bores holes and tunnels through the earth.
This Awareness indicates that pictures of these boring
machines to create tunnels are available in the book "Alien
Magic," by Hamilton. There is some description of these
machines in that book also.
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MYSTERIOUS ELF SOUND AGONIZES NEW MEXICO;
SPREADS ACROSS THE NATION
By Jim Moore
Executive Director, The Phoenix Foundation
Copyright 1992 by the Phoenix Foundation
September 29, 1992
In the desolate hills and canyons of New Mexico, the land is
alive with some strange phenomenon that pulsates in the
hearts of the people, driving them to exhaustion,
distraction and illness. That phenomenon is known simply as
"The Sound". Is it some top-secret underground operation in
an area known for its legends about Area 51 and alien bases?
Is it an underground generator? Water? Wind? Or is, as some
claim, "the voice of God" demanding attention?
The Phoenix Foundation was recently asked to conduct an
investigation by dozens of people whose lives are being torn
apart by a throbbing, pulsating noise that results in severe
headaches, nausea, illnesses and even broken marriages.
There's no doubt "The Sound" is real.
Dana Hougland, an acoustic engineer with the firm of David
L. Adams Associates, Inc. of Denver, brought her equipment
to Taos in response to a plea for help from Catanya Saltzman
and her husband, Bob, who contacted the Phoenix Foundation.
Hougland, who said her interest was sparked by Catanya's
detailed records of the sound, identified it as being some
sort of powerful pulse of 17 hertz, with overtones up to 70
hertz. The Environmental Protection Agency has ruled these
frequencies "psychoactive", meaning they have pronounced and
harmful biological effects.
The story of "The Sound" reeks with drama. The Saltzmans
have received telephone threats warning them to "back off"
and "don't stick your nose into something that's none of
your business." The Taos News has also received anonymous
threats. Marriages have been ruined because some people hear
it or feel it and others don't. The normal range for human
hearing begins at about 20-30 hertz, but women and children
are more sensitive to these frequencies -- and to higher
frequencies -- than men.
Hougland is very skeptical that the sound is related to
underground activities at nearby Los Alamos National
Laboratory, about 56 miles away. "That would be a world
record," she said, citing the distance a sound travels
through any medium but open water before it dissipates. The
sound is low and the waves so elongated, she said, that some
people can feel it vibrating inside their chests. "Other
constant sound exposure with pure-tone components" -- like
prolonged traffic noise or the sound one hears flying inside
a jet -- often result in complaints of discomfort and
illness similar to those reported in several cities in New
Mexico and now in other states, such as Michigan and Texas.
The most apparent culprits, Hougland says, are a local
sewage treatment plant, power lines spanning the Rio Grande
Gorge, large underground machinery, large tunnels or mine
shafts through which wind and/or water is moving in large
volumes at high speeds. But that fails to explain similar
sounds in far-off locations. "I'm not ruling anything out,"
she said. "It would take an awful lot of energy to transfer
the sound waves out of the ground and through the air."
Attempts to pinpoint a source, even with triangulation
methods, have been fruitless. Also, Hougland is skeptical
about natural sources because the sound wasn't noticed until
suddenly in about June 1991. "I'm sure the sound is there,"
she said. "There is a legitimate problem here to be looked
at. But we're not dealing with something horribly bizarre
here. It's probably a very common source." Others aren't so
sure.
"We've been inundated with people claiming there are aliens
running around in underground bases," Catanya said. "But I
do not believe in UFOs and aliens." Yet the possibility
cannot be overlooked entirely. Catanya and most of her Taos
neighbors are not familiar with the claims of people like
Bill Hamilton who claim extraterrestrials are living in huge
underground bases near Groom Lake, Nevada, not far from
Taos. When I placed an overlay of a map pinpointing The
Sound locations over a map of alleged underground alien
bases, they matched almost precisely.
The bizarre events at Groom Lake have been widely reported
in People Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, Wall Street
Journal, Taos News and elsewhere. Groom Lake is said to be a
testing ground for alien craft piloted by human pilots
working with extraterrestrials. It is known to be where the
Stealth bomber and fighter were developed and tested and
where a new, saucer-shaped craft is being flown. Another
possibility -- just as coinspiratorial -- is that the
government is developing some kind of powerful, extremely
low frequency "mind control" weapon and testing it on an
unwitting population. An Air Force lieutenant at Kirtland
Air Force Base guardedly acknowledged that the Air Force was
well aware of the complaints -- and wanted to know why we
wanted to know more.
The sound is hauntingly familiar to the Woodpecker Signal, a
psychoactive Soviet pulse beamed worldwide at 10 hertz that
disrupted global communications, aircraft flights, and even
-- some say -- the weather. It was the same signal beamed at
the US Embassy in Moscow since 1963 that caused a dramatic
increase in birth defects and cancer among embassy
personnel. Two ambassadors in a row died of cancer and a
third, Walter Stoessel, left with bleeding eyes. President
Kennedy authorized Operation Pandora, a top-secret
investigation. The report is still top-secret.
The Phoenix Foundation, through the Freedom of Information
Act, has obtained once-classified documents from the CIA and
DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) that prove beyond a doubt
that the United States has developed this technology as a
weapon "to mold human behavior in a manner consonant with
national plans." The judge in the Judas Priest "subliminal
music" trial a few years back cited a litany of CIA use of
"mind control" to influence national elections, but those
written comments never made it into the mainstream press --
or any news medium for that matter, until now.
Catanya Saltzman, 44, who is leading efforts to identify the
source of this puzzle, first heard it in May 1991 in her
home eight miles south of Taos. "In the middle of the night,
it woke me up and I started running all over the house for a
place to get away from it, but I couldn't," she said. "At
first, I thought somebody was digging a well or something."
Her husband, Bob, a photographer, couldn't hear anything at
first, then "snapped to it", he said. "Once you've heard it,
it's all over for you."
The sound has been noted over a wide area -- from Tres
Piedras on the west to U.S. Hill on the east, and from 10
miles south of to a few miles north of Taos. It is heard at
all times of the day, but mostly during the night and early
morning hours. Coincidentally perhaps, that is the time of
day when the most intense activity is observed at Groom
Lake. Power lines were the first suspect, but when
electricity was cut off in the area due to a faulty
transformer, the sound continued. "The military conspiracy
is the only one which I haven't entirely ruled out," Bob
Saltzman said. To those who are affected by it, it isn't
funny. "People are suffering from this," said Catanya. "It's
real. Your concentration is thrown off. My hands shake. It's
hard to put words together... The hostility that's been
directed at us is coming from people who can't hear it and
don't want to know about it. It's like ostriches sticking
their heads in the sand."
The written threat to "back off" was published in the June
18, 1992 edition of the Taos News weekly newspaper: "Stop
snooping where you don't belong as far as 'the sound' is
concerned. Someone may end up getting hurt, so you'd better
cease before it's too late. We mean business. Don't pry into
matters that don't concern you. You may find something you
don't want to know. Beware."
Editor Jess Williams said the unsigned, typed letter with no
return address bore an Albuquerque postmark (common on
internal Taos mail) and could be either a joke or a serious
warning to either the Saltzmans or to the Taos News.
Hougland's firm has worked on sound insulation on 2,000
homes around Denver's Stapleton Airport and recent
modifications of the city's Boettcher Concert Hall. She said
the 17-hertz signal carries a "rising harmonic" reaching 70
hertz. She said she, too, could plainly hear the sound. She
said a similar problem in Alabama was traced to a large
ventilation fan in an underground mine. Pumps on sewage
equipment can also emit vibrations in the sub-hearing range.
Michael Valerio, water resource engineer for Taos, said no
recent additions have been made to the plant that could
possibly explain the noise. He also hears it at his home two
miles from the plant.
State Environment Department environmentalist Juan Ortega
visited the area twice. He also heard it, but is baffled for
an explanation. U.S. Bureau of Land Management geologist
Vickie Daniels said she and her two children can hear the
pulse from their home on the west side of the Rio Grand
Gorge. She has searched in vain for the cause, and does not
believe it is a natural phenomenon. Neither the Bureau of
Land Management nor the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
has equipment suitable to test for the source of the sound.
"My hearing's very poor," said Sally Howell, 79, who lives
near the center of Taos, "but for maybe a year and a half
I've been feeling these weird vibrations in different parts
of my body -- right where the ribs come together, inside my
ears and headaches." Paul Loumena and Alexandra Lorraine,
owners of the Laughing Horse Inn, stay in a motel two nights
a week just to escape the terror.
"My theory," Loumena says, "is the noise is above us and the
town is in a swale. Either that or the background noise of
the town keeps us from hearing it (when we stay at the
motel)." He suspects high-tension power lines. Jon
Samuelson, assistant to the vice president of external
relations at Plains Electric Transmission and Generation
Cooperative in Albuequerque, discounts that. The last change
in area electricity transmission was when a new 345-kilovolt
line was built across the Rio Grand Gorge in 1981.
K.C. Grams, of Taos' south side, said her husband doesn't
hear anything, but she does. She replaced her home heat pump
-- but the sound continued, even from 15 miles away. She
first suspected a neurological problem. When during a
function at her child's school, another mother asked if she
heard the hum, she said, "My jaw dropped. I almost cried. It
was very heartening... It's very hard to describe,
especially a sound that many people don't hear. All I can
say is that it affects me like scraping fingernails against
the blackboard. It's very irritating."
"The Sound" has been reported in Albuquerque and in several
other northwest New Mexico cities. Schatzie Hubbell and her
husband, of Santa Fe, are among several who are trying to
sell their home and flee the state. The Hubbells are going
to Arizona. "The most common theory we've heard is, 'Jesus
is making this sound to wake you up,'" said Bob Saltzman. A
Los Alamos resident, Helen F. Stanbro, suggests a medical
cause. "The description of the symptoms accompanying the
sound ('jaw joint pain, nausea, vertigo') immediately
suggest an inner ear problem. Infection? Meniere's disease?
Temporomandibular joint inflammation -- TMJ?"
"In the case of the man who described the sound as
'pulsating -- louder and softer -- like a slow heartbeat',
it alarms me to think that it is very likely to be exactly
that: such audible carotid bruits are not uncommon and may
signal serious condition s such as arteriovenous fistula,
carotid artery disease or even impending stroke."
Tom Ladig of Taos suggests wind: "Out by the Stakeout
Restaurant (site of the Saltzman occurence) there are power
poles running roughly east-west along the main access road.
These poles are set quite far apart and have dual lines well
above the trees. Also, there exists a perpendicular set of
poles running roughly north-south in the vicinity. What may
happen is that the wind causes the wire to vibrate between
the poles. Air in turn is set in motion with waves radiating
outwards at (for this system) subsonic frequencies.
"A secondary phenomena must also be happening. Waves from
different pole-line sets merge over distance and either
reduce or add to their amplitudes. This would account for
the energy to rise and fall in intensity over time but still
be subsonic."
This past May, Albuquerque TV station KOB-Channel 4
broadcast a news brief about an underground geo-thermal
shaft at Los Alamos which was built to probe into the
earth's hot inner core. Some suspect that. "I live up at the
Tierra Blanca," said Peggy S. Parks, "and have for 50 years.
The noise out here is real, fairly recent in origin and
irritating as hell.
"I only hear the noise at night, when the world is quiet.
However, I had gotten to be quite an insomniac until I
started using a fan or humidifier to block the sound out. I
have spent hours outside at night trying to pinpoint the
source of the sound. By the process of elimination, the only
projects in the last year or so that could create sound of
this magnitude is the generator/pump at the golf course or
the apparatus on top of Picuris Peak."
What is that "apparatus"? No one knows, beyond it being some
sort of radio transmission tower, perhaps for cellular phone
transmissions. J.C. McLoughlin of Talpa puts forth one of
the most bizarre theories: "I interviewed 'Moonhawk', a
spiritual feminist. She says that deep within the Picuris
Mountains, a spaceship full of immortals from Uranus has
lain buried for some 10,000 years. This is true; Moonhawk
told me so. I'm not making this up.
"The atmosphere of Uranus is composed of frigid clouds of
ammonia, methane and other gases toxic to earthly life.
Moonhawk says the aliens are digging their way up from their
hundred centuries' hiding; the basso profundo we hear are
from their vast excavating machines, and their emergence is
at hand." Not to worry, though, for these are feminist
aliens, Moonhawk says, come to obliterate the patriarchy.
"The Space Feminists are going to pour forth from their hole
like a horde of ammonia-quaffing killer hens from hell, to
rid the world of wars, oppression, meat-eating, social
injustice, Republicans, tourism-based economic inequality,
suction-cup Garfields, airport extensions, golf courses and
all the other plagues visited upon long-suffering humanity
by the ancient ruling cabal of European males. Welcome to
the UFO -- Universal Feminist Order."
Oh, well! Rose Woodell of Llano Quemado: "I, too, am hearing
and feeling a low-frequency vibration dating back several
months. When I leave the Taos Valley my physical discomfort
(such as headaches, nausea, disorientation, etc.) disappear.
I had previously thought it might be some sort of fallout
from the Los Alamos area or a chemical spray. Could it be
aliens? Nah, we'd be sending them foreign aid."
Secret Military Studies
September 18, 1990 -- A tight lid of secrecy has been
clamped on U.S. military studies of biological effects of
electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation. The Phoenix
Foundation, through years of research, has accumulated a
large database of information dealing with the biological
effects of EMF and is the only civilian non-profit research
group in America specifically chartered to explore the
effects of Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) electromagnetic
energy. Over the past two months, the Foundation has
released dozens of documents from its files pertaining to
the effects of EMF on residents living near high-voltage
power transmission lines. "The time has come," says
Foundation Executive Director Jim Moore, "to push this issue
into the public consciousness. For too many years the
research has been classified for reasons of 'national
security' and has been used for advanced weapons research."
The Foundation claims to have evidence that Americans may
have been used as guinea pigs in nationwide "mind control"
experiments involving electromagnetic fields. Adds Paul
Brodeur, staff reporter for The New Yorker and author of
several books, including "The Zapping of America": "Surely,
if the questions that should have been asked about the
various applications of electromagnetic radiation continue
to go unasked about future applications, this nation will
one day be faced with a public health disaster of monumental
and perhaps irreversible proportions."
The Phoenix Foundation claims that the reason that EMF
health effects continue to be denied is because the military
and electronics industry are in close cooperation over what
to make public about EMF biological studies. As an example,
the Foundation cites a report entitled "Biological Effects
of Electromagnetic Radiation (Radio-waves and Microwaves) --
Eurasian Communist Countries," prepared for the Defense
Intelligence Agency by the Army Medical and Information
Agency (you can order a copy of Report No. DST-181
0S-074-76). This report was issued in March 1976 as a
classified document. Most of its contents, 26 pages, were
declassified in November of that year after Barton Reppert,
of the Associated Press, wrote letters to the Pentagon
requesting that it be made public under the Freedom of
Information Act. The Pentagon agreed, apparently to help win
increased Congressional funding for electronics warfare
systems. After acknowledging in a summary section that
microwave exposure standards in Communist countries "remain
much more stringent than in the West," the report warned:
"If the more advanced nations of the West are strict in the
enforcement of stringent exposure standards, there could be
unfavorable effects on industrial output and military
functions."
The DIA report presents the rationale that "the Eurasian
Communist countries could, on the other hand, give lip
service to strict standards, but allow their military to
operate without restriction and thereby gain the advantage
in electronic warfare techniques and the development of
anti-personnel applications."
Much of the declassified portion of the document is filled
with obviously deliberate, but unintentionalIy comic,
contradiction, misinterpretation and omission, the Phoenix
Foundation claims. For example, the first page of the
summary says that "Eurasian Communist countries are actively
involved in evaluation of the biological significance of
radiowaves and microwaves," while the next page declares:
"no significant research and development has been identified
that could be related to work in this field in the People's
Republic of China, North Korea and North Vietnam." The
Soviet Union, in contrast, was not even mentioned in this
paragraph. The entire middle section of the report, entitled
"Biological Significance of Radiowaves and Microwaves,"
turns out to be little more than a general review of
well-known studies conducted by Communist scientists from
1968 to 1975.
Yet in its final paragraph of a section entitled "Trends,
Conclusions, and Forecast", the authors reveal their most
signifcant omission. Virtually alI of the work whose
usurpation by the Communists they are suggesting, and whose
potentially disastrous consequences they are describing, was
originally conducted by Allen Frey, published in the medical
literature of the United States, and financed by the Office
of Naval Research. That paragraph states: "No Eurasian
communist research activity has been identified which can be
clearly or directly related to any military offensive
weapons program. However, soviet scientists are fully aware
of the biological effects of low-level microwave radiation
which might have offensive weapons application. Their
internal sound perception research has great potential for
development into a system for disorienting or disrupting the
behavior patterns of military or diplomatic personnel; it
could be used equally well as an interrogation tool.
The Soviets have also studied the psychophysiological and
metabolic changes and the alterations of brain function
resulting from exposure to mixed frequencies of
electromagnetic radiation. One physiological effect which
has been demonstrated is heart seizure. This has been
acomplished experimentally in frogs by synchronizing a
pulsed ultra-high-frequency microwave signal of low-average
power density with the depolarization of the myocardium and
beaming the signal at the thoracic area. A frequency
probably could be found which would provide sufficient
penetration of the chest wall of humans to accomplish the
same effect. Another possibility is the alteration of the
blood-brain barrier. This could allow neurotoxins in the
blood to cross. As a result, an individual could develop
severe neuropathological symptoms and either die or become
seriously impaired neurologically.
The next paragraph is even more chilling: "The potential for
the development of a numberofanti-personnel applications is
suggested by the research published in the USSR, East Europe
and the West. Sounds and possibly even words which appear to
be originating intercranially can be induced by signal
modulation at very low average power densities."
(In the spring of 1973, Dr. Charles C. Sharp and some
colleagues at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
conducted an experiment in which the human brain received a
message carried to it by a pulsed microwave transmission.
Sitting in an anechoic chamber -- a room with absorbent
walls designed to prevent microwave reflection -- Dr. Sharp
was able to recognize spoken words that were modulated by an
audiogram -- a graphic representation of the sound waves
that humans can hear -- and that were then sent into the
chamber at a microwave frequency of about two gigahertz.)
Later in the DIA report, the authors predict that the
Soviets will continue to use internal sound perception,
perceptual distortion and other psychophysiological effects,
and that "the results of these investigations could have
military applications if the Soviets develop methods for
disrupting or disturbing human behavior." A smalI portion of
this DIA report remains classified. It clearly indicates
that the US has been in volved in the development of such
weapons for some years: "A study published in 1972 by the
U.S. Army Mobility Equipment Research and Development
Center, titled 'Analysis of Microwaves for Barrier Warfare',
examines the plausibility of using radio frequency energy in
barrier-counterbarrier warfare. It discusses both
anti-personnel and anti-materiel effects for lethal and
non-lethal applications for meeting the barrier requirements
of delay, immobilization and increased target exposure. The
report concludes that:
a. It is possible to field a truck-portable microwave
barrier system that will completely immobilize personnel
in the open with present-day technology and equipment.
b. There is a strong potential for a microwave system that
would be capable of delaying or immobilizing personnel
in vehicles.
c. With present technology no method could be identified
for a microwave system to destroy the type of armored
materiel common to tanks."
(NOTE: A television producer has told me that a friend of
his who was in a band, went to the Gulf to entertain the
troops. Inflight, their sound equipment was lost, but the
military pulled up with a truckload "of the most
sophisticated sound equipment I have ever seen in my life."
When band members started to photograph the truck, they were
stopped by military guards who told them it was a
highly-classified piece of equipment and could not be
photographed. Other sources have told us they were puzzled
when the Army placed powerful speaker systems throughout the
desert -- "but no sound came out of them." An estimated
20,000 Gulf War veterans are now suffering from the same
symptoms one would find in the victims of electromagnetic
non-ionizing radiation -- aching teeth, jaws, joints,
chronic fatigue syndrome, destroyed immune system, etc.
Still other sources tell us that this top-secret ELF
"barrier weapon" was used against Manuel Noriega in Panama;
the "loud rock music" blared at Noriega's hideaway was just
a cover to mask the real purpose of this powerful new
weapon.)
A bit later in the same report, the authors reveal that the
U.S. Army Medical Research Laboratory at Fort Knox, Kentucky
conducted tests on microwave burns, using human guinea pigs:
"They have produced third-degree burns on human skin with
twenty watts per square centimenter in two seconds, with
frequencies of approximately two Gigahertz."
More than ten years ago, a CIA analyst suggested the same
thing when asked to review Project Pandora, the still-secret
investigation into the Soviet microwaves beamed at the U.S.
embassy in Moscow. Dr, Milton M. Zaret wrote: "The primary
emphasis of Soviet-bloc research on the biological effects
of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation is concerned with
induced neuro-physiological or behavioral aberrations. These
may be either inhibitory or excitatory; the primary locus of
action may be in either the peripheral or central nervous
system, and the effects may be reversible or irreversible.
Super-imposed upon these three sets of variable are the
concepts of thermal vs. non-thermal effects, the role of
continuous versus pulsed waveform, and the degree of
wavelength specificity."
Although the various reports appear, at first glance, to
represent a confused and conflicting mass of data, a
logical, orderly and meaningful pattern can be evolved in
evaluating their data. The basic factors which must
constantly be borne in mind are
(1) that microwave radiation is electromagnetic in nature,
(2) that the nervous system functions as an electronic
network normally shielded or protected from spurious
fields and
(3) that when extraordinary electromagnetic fields are
created around neural elements this can produce
functional or organic neurological anomalies.
Zaret pointed out that Soviet research showed pulsed fields
(such as those which appear around power lines) were more
effective than continuous radiation in affecting nervous
system pathways.
"For non-thermal irradiations, they believe that the
electromagnetic field induced by the microwave environment
affects the cell membrane, and this results in an increase
of excitability or an increase in the level of excitation of
nerve cells. With repeated or continued exposure, the
increased excitability leads to a state of exhaustion of the
cells of the cerebral cortex. This results in the Sechenov
inhibition effect which is manifested by the elimination of
positive conditioned reflexes or behavior."
This is the same result found in studies of the effects of
power line fields on human cell samples. One hesitates to
quote such a source as the National Enquirer, but the
response this article elicited from the Department of
Defense warrants it. On June 22, 1976, the tabloid reported
that since 1973 the Advanced Research Projects Agency had
been sponsoring a program to develop a machine that could
read minds from a distance by deciphering the brain's
magnetic waves.
A scientist involved in the program had declared that the
ultimate goal of his work was to exercise control over the
brain. According to the article, scientists were studying
various aspects of the problem at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, New York University, the University
of California at Los Angeles, and the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration's Ames Research Center at Moffett
AFB in California. The amazing thing is that on November 19,
1976, in a letter published in Paul Brodeur's "The Zapping
of America" and written by Robert L. Gilliat, Assistant
General Counsel for Manpower, Health, and Public Affairs for
the Department of Defense, the government confirmed such a
machine actually exists: "As indicated in my letter of
November 12, information which I have received from the
Advanced Research Projects Agency is to the effect that the
so-called 'brain wave' machine, which was the subject of the
National Enquirer article... is not capable of reading brain
waves of anyone other than a willing participant in the
laboratory efforts to develop that particular device. Its
technical limitations, I am told, do not permit any long
range use. I have no reason to doubt that information."
What assurances do Americans have that this will ONLY work
on willing participants? The implications are staggering. It
is technologically possible that the entire power grid of
the nation could be used not only as a means of mind control
"in a manner consonant with national plans" (as put in a
top-secret document submitted to the Warren Commission in
1964 by former CIA Director Richard Helms), but could also
be used as a national tool of surveillance. Is it
unreasonable to believe that efforts continued -- and
possibly even succeeded -- to utilize this weapon over long
ranges and on unwilling participants? An intriguing report
that links these effects to those power densities "that
exist in a typical urban environment" was recently compiled
by William Bise, director of the Pacific Northwest Center
for the Study of Non-Ionizing Radiation, in Portland,
Oregon. Entitled "Radio-frequency Induced Interference
Responses in the Human Nervous System," the report describes
preliminary experiments conducted on ten human volunteers --
five men and five women -- between July 1975 and June 1976.
According to Bise, these experiments, conducted without
controls, showed that "biological interference responses in
the human nervous system can be elicited not only by
pulse-modulated but by continuous wave radio-frequency at
power densities substantially below those levels that exist
in a typical urban environment."
Four of the male volunteers, subjected to irradiation by
electric fields of only 65-90 microvolts per meter,
experienced short-term memory impairment, followed by
concentration inhibition and by irritability, and three of
the women volunteers expressed apprehension and mild
irritation during the course of the tests. In the final
section of his report, Bise suggested that since
approximately five percent of the urban population of the
U.S. was believed to be living in an environmental power
density averaged over several radio bands of about two volts
per meter, his findings indicated that "a meaningful risk
factor for the general population appears to exist." He then
concluded that "since radio-frequency in the environment
continues to increase at a phenomenal rate, there is a need
for further clarifying research of radio-frequency effects
on biological systems."
The importance of this research, claims the Phoenix
Foundation, is in the similarity of its effects to those
found from power line radiation. Dr. Zaret was likewise
concerned about the Soviet "woodpecker signal" that
interrupted communications worldwide (New York Times,
October 30, 1976), not because of its interference with
radio and telecommunications, but because of its potential
threat to human health: "The broadband signal is being
pulsed at an on-off rate of ten times per second. When I
analyzed the soviet literature for Project Pandora back in
the 1960s, it was very clear that such an encoding impressed
onto carrier wavelengths could have a central-nervous-system
effect. In the case of the present signal, I would not be
surprised to find that the on-off code at a repitition rate
of ten per second could have an effect on the brain's
inherent alpha rhythm. So whetever purpose the Russians may
have for continuing this transmission, the potential effect
in human beings from altering their alpha rhythm cannot be
discounted." Powerline radiation pulses at 60 times per
second, a sixth-level harmonic of the brain waves -- same as
six octaves higher. The biological and cellular effects are
the same, according to study after study after study.
As this article went to press, in the September 1992 issue
of The Omega Report ($15/year-The Phoenix Foundation, P.O.
Box 92008, Nashville, TN 37209), we continued to receive
reports from around the nation about the same or similar ELF
"sounds". The latest reports come from Burbank and San
Anselmo, CA, near Hamilton Air Force Base.
If any of you have information or knowledge about similar
effects or activity in that area (or any other) that may be
related to ELF military experiments, please tell us. We are
trying to map the locations of these incidents by computer.
Before it becomes illegal to do so (I face a potential $1
million fine and imprisonment under a propsoed FDA law), I
would like to give you a number of health approaches
(natural, non-drug) that MAY help combat the effects of this
warfare in which we are the guinea pigs. Exposure to ELF
radiation will, among other things, weaken the immune system
and can cause skin problems, as well as the other problems
mentioned by Taos residents in this article.
For skin problems, I recommend -- on the advice of a doctor
who does not prescribe drugs -- citricide (a concentrated
cirtric acid), lay off coffee and use cooler water in your
bath (for skin problems). You might also want to consider
alpha-wave or delta-wave brain relaxation tapes (not
subliminal tapes) that will counteract the theta-wave effect
of ELF radiation. Our research indicates there may be a link
between ELF radiation and AIDS -- as it destroys the immune
system. We have testified in federal court as an expert
witness on this issue and will be doing so again in a court
case in Springer, Mississippi in October 1992.
By all means, consult your physician before taking any
remedies. Even vitamins, if over-used, can cause damage. We
hope to have a special report in the next issue on what you
can do to combat ELF radiation effects. Please note: ELF
radiation is non-ionizing -- unlike nuclear radiation -- so
its effects are different.
If you are one of the growing number of Americans whose
health is being seriously jeopardized by "The Sound", please
let us know.
The Phoenix Foundation
P.O. Box 92008
Nashville TN 37209
FAX: 615-269-9881
GLOBAL VILLAGE BBS: 615-297-0533